Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-05-07
THE WHIMS OF ENGINES.
LOCOMOTIVES THAT GET THE sULKs
 AND HAVE 8ALKY STREAMS.

An Account Of tho stGbbornes, Engin,
 That was Ever Put on Road-Like,
 and Dislikes Between Locomotives and
 Engineers-some Cases.
 Locomotives are funny things said ar t.fie engineer. -aud I've seen them some
 tinles when believed they were actually human. They get the sUlks and hay,
 bulky stre1ks, and when they're in sucI moods yuu cant make time with them any
 more than you can fly. Then, again
 tLey II be as cEipper and willing ss a thor 1nghbred horse. and you actually have tC
 hold 'em in to keep from running into sta
 tious ahead of time
 -l suppose the subbornest locomotive tlsu Was ever put on a road was one of the lNln Sisters couple ot splendid ma cAine> built by the New York Central a lev years ago. They were made exactly alike in every particular, from the same pit,-rns, by the same w0rsugn, and with if slule materials. There wasn't man 0 the road that could tell which was Nnlrn uHtl their numbers We're painted oi ihem- They were baau,ics, and the en- li"-ers who were assigned tO duty on taem were the envy of all the boys. When me engines were put on trial one of the locomotives developed amazing power and speei. She could take a freight train up a grade with scarcely an effort, and with a pa >enger train made fifty miles an hour with ease.
 sPITEFUL PrFFS OF BLACK SMOKE.
 The other wouldn't go at all Even when pulled wide open she would simply give few spiteful puffs of black smoke, a few turns O. her driving wheels, and then would stop. The way she exhausted steam showed she was a vixen. She was taken aplgt and not a single thing could be foUnd wrong with her mechanism. Different parts of the locomotive that WIS SO great a success were exchanged for the same parts in the stubborn one. The will ing locomotive ran as well as ever. but the stubborn one r.fused to move a peg They tried half dozen different engineers on her-for you must know that sometimes @ locomotive Is particular about the man that handles her throttle and will do work for one that she refuses Co do for an- other, but she treated them all with equal iisdain, They put her in the round house and kept her there for six months, ssaAAAaaAAA- NAAa4A Naaa lA.AAL E@A 0NrI AlNE haiSy fit, and run all right on another trial
 One day they fired her mp and tried her. She started of like a beauty. and ran two miles In little over two minutes. Then she stopped, ani c0Uidn hs induced tO make a move in either dirue jon. She was iowei back to the shop and t.-ken to pieces. The S1ms machinery was used in building another locomotive. and that one was as Ll- success as the mate of the stubborn engine, and when last heard of Ter she was still one of the Lest engines on the road
 It sounds queer to say that locomotives have their likes and dislikes, but it actu- ally does seem that they have. and there are few engineers who don't believe it. There isn't a railroad man who can't tell yOu instances by the dozen of engines that positively would not make time with some engineers; but would get there every dime under tine hands of others You mightisay lt was the fault of the engineers if ths en- <iDes did not make their time. butK have known the very best engineers that ever mounted the foctbUard whOrhaYs bcer 1h- gcd Co ha transferred from l1clTnDtfves 9. crd i'm their charge because the iUc mo dives would not make their timeS out which, under the hand of other eusiI -ers neither .s sAilifll nor 50 eNpericl.ced. would never run behind
 ACAaE OF MUTvAL AIE ACINEST.
 Take the cI~e of Josh Martin and Cad Lyman, tvoof tne old-time Erie engineers, and either uf them without a superior in their day. JH-i wIs running % locomotive LhJt he was --ts,iy attached Co, and The sequel proved that the attachment was mutual. For some reason or other the superintendent oi the road wanted Josh s locomotive for use on a portion of the road that Lyman ran on. SD he ordered Lyman and Martin Go exchange engines. The old fellows wh remember it say that when Jush's engine was run away from Port Jarvis. Josh cried like haby, and that tlu engine herself was all broke up at the parting, for she was an hour lOngHr than she should have been in getting Co her new field of labor Cad Lyman took charge of her, but she had made up her mind that he would not work under him. and she di C. She got stalled with the lightest trains and never made her run on time After week trial Lyman reported the locomotive No good and she was condemned 70 run the gravel train. She worked as hslky and sulky as yer, and the superintendent ordered her taken tO Paterson and broken up.
 Josh Martin heard of this, and came down the -oad a-fiyin' He begged Co have his old gal back again, and finally The superintendent said he might try her. Josh mounted his fOOtbOard once more, and when he pulled the throttle away she went like a bird. She made the run bIcS to Port Jervis quicker than my loC1ruO- tive had ever done it mp JO that day, and Josh Martin ran her for years over the Delaware division after that, and always made his run on time as easy as could he, except in olse of accident No. sir, the fact of the matter was Josh and that en- zine just loved one another, and simply would not be parted; and there are plenty of cases just ike it today. New York Times.